Circling a City: Journeys on the Christchurch 360 Trail

 My current mountain bike...Merida Big Nine 20 Some of the trail sections along the Christchurch 360 are best covered on a bike rather than on foot. In particular the tracks from Brooklands Lagoon along the banks of the Waimakiriri River would take an enormous amount of time and effort to walk. The same distance can easily be covered on a MTB in a mater of hours....  End of the Brooklands section of the 360 Trail I have only one section of the 360 Trail left to cover between Taylors Mistake and Scarborough. However it is my intention to eventually cover all of the sections of the Christchurch 360 Trail again as I took no films or photos the last time I covered this ground.  Getting back on a bike after 20 years... Back in the late 1980's and early 1990's (before I got married) I was an avid MTB rider. I liked downhill riding, forest and flat trail riding and used to cover between 60-120 kilometers every week on my bike. As with most people jobs, houses, family and lack of time

  A quick look at my tramping camera... I recently upgraded my camera equipment from the older point and shoot camera I had to a new Canon mirrorless camera with more advanced features. I am hoping that the new camera will enable me to produce better quality images for both this blog and my You Tube channel.  Self portrait at Punchbowl Falls in March I thought I would have a quick look at my camera gear after this new purchase.  My old camera gear: Up until the last year I have been using a succession of cheap point and shoot cameras I have been buying off Trade Me. The quality of the images from any digital camera made after 2015 are good enough to post on the blog and I was happy to use a simpler camera when tramping.  Two of the previous cameras I have used For the most part I have been using various models of the popular Canon Powershot camera which can be had for anywhere from $40-$100 dollars second hand. They are still excellent cameras and if you want something better than a ph